LOCAL youth charity, 4 Youth (SW), has celebrated a milestone moment for its youth mentoring scheme.
For the first time, the scheme linked mentors – volunteers from the local and wider community trained by the charity – with young people at Melksham Oak Community School in need of guidance about work and education prospects.
The mentoring period came to a conclusion recently, and to celebrate, chair of the 4 Youth (SW) Trust, Jon Hubbard, presented students with certificates, confirming their successful completion of the scheme.
“Their 4 Youth mentors watched with pride as each student accepted their certificate,” said Keith Clover, scheme co-ordinator. “The launch of the mentoring scheme at the tail end of the pandemic was a bold move. 4Y have worked tirelessly to get the project off the ground and have identified and trained 10 mentors to deliver the scheme. Melksham Oak have also co-ordinated the work of the scheme with students and without Mr Bound the scheme would not have taken off.”
15-year-old Lily Baker, who plays for Melksham Town FC U18s Ladies’ team, told Melksham News that the support from her mentor, Jim Ryan, had helped her to decide on pursuing a career in football coaching.
She said, “Jim helped me explore what I want to do in the future when I leave school.”
Another student said that the mentor matches had ‘identified lots of things that I could do after leaving school’; whilst another said that their mentor had ‘raised my confidence in my academic ability’.
Now that the scheme has established itself, it is planned for a new set of mentor matches in September and further growth of the scheme by linking with Wiltshire College on their Lackham site.
To enquire about becoming a 4 Youth mentor please contact: hello@youngmelksham.org.uk
![Melksham Times Past
A column about days gone by in Melksham by local historian Lisa Ellis
The Independent Chapel and Women’s Rights in the 1840s
A document I recently transcribed lists the baptisms performed at the Independent Chapel. This record is especially helpful in that, along with baptisms, a lot of them include birth dates - one of the ways I discover which day someone was born.
The following is taken from a Wiltshire Times article published on 9th November 1878 which reports a speech given during the 100-year services and to celebrate their renovations (what we now know to be the Rachel Fowler Centre).
One speaker, Rev. T. Mann, minister in Trowbridge, talked about the Chapel’s origins when he related how Rev. Honywill came to Melksham and how he’d gone on to remain as the minister for the Independent Chapel for almost 60 years. [Honywill and his family lived on King Street in what we now call “Legion House”.]
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A column about days gone by in Melksham by local historian Lisa Ellis
The Independent Chapel and Women’s Rights in the 1840s
A document I recently transcribed lists the baptisms performed at the Independent Chapel. This record is especially helpful in that, along with baptisms, a lot of them include birth dates - one of the ways I discover which day someone was born.
The following is taken from a Wiltshire Times article published on 9th November 1878 which reports a speech given during the 100-year services and to celebrate their renovations (what we now know to be the Rachel Fowler Centre).
One speaker, Rev. T. Mann, minister in Trowbridge, talked about the Chapel’s origins when he related how Rev. Honywill came to Melksham and how he’d gone on to remain as the minister for the Independent Chapel for almost 60 years. [Honywill and his family lived on King Street in what we now call “Legion House”.]
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